Which will end up as $550-$600 CDN, which will not impact used 2070 prices.
Do you have some issue with my estimates?
What do you mean the best you can do in the new market is a 5600XT?
Which will end up as $550-$600 CDN, which will not impact used 2070 prices.
Other than them being meaningless fantasy no. The market is not going to be changed any more by your estimates than it was by the guy who was saying they should cost $250.
This isn't new. I was looking for used Maxwell cards a while back and realized the used market, at least in Canada, wasn't worth chasing unicorns looking for a good value. I don't expect that will ever change.
Best you can get spending $400 new.
Sure it will..
Exchange rate is 1.33
$400 = around $532 CDN
2080 will be similar to 3060 in price..
2070 will drop to around $300 - 400 CDN
Or mining demand heating up. Maybe. Scarcity, sure, that too. Seems like all kinds of PC parts are in high demand, in the USA. (Maybe not Intel stuff, other than their top-tier 10th-Gen CPUs, that some gamers still want.)Now we're seeing the scarcity panic buying again.
Lucky are those people who bought 2080Ti used for really good price.
AMD however doesn't need to best the 3080, they just need to beat or compete with the 3070 and 3060/3050(?), which are the big markets for cards. COVID maybe throws a wrench in things, but I've also read that that really isn't affecting things like video cards, it's more likely to affect power supplies and such...which makes sense judging from the insane prices for PSU's these days. It's certainly a great time to buy RAM right now, and SSD's are dropping in price every week.
I'm enjoying playing some of my easier-to-run games in my 150+ Steam library, and EPIC has been giving away lots of good games that are very playable on my now lowly 1060 3GB. The only things I can't play with any enjoyment these days is Squad, DCS World and IL2 as I have to turn the graphics way down...which isn't going to happen
Another point of view.- If AMD wants to make money to continue funding their dgpu adventures among other things, they need to start making some fat margins on their cards. To do that, they need to start competing at the 3080 and 3090 tier and start charging similar prices (as much as it pains me to say that).
RTG cannot survive off the scraps that NV leaves them, they need to get themselves a seat at the big boys table.
- If AMD wants to make money to continue funding their dgpu adventures among other things, they need to start making some fat margins on their cards. To do that, they need to start competing at the 3080 and 3090 tier and start charging similar prices (as much as it pains me to say that).
RTG cannot survive off the scraps that NV leaves them, they need to get themselves a seat at the big boys table.
I'd like to see the actual card sales in the top end. From everything I've read, and just going off the Steam surveys, the number of users with those cards is tiny, and I can't imagine how much TOTAL profit they actually make on those cards, from gamers anyways.
In any event, it seems like they're not going to get above the 3080, but if they even get close and actually have stock (AND have drivers that work), it could be a big win for AMD. I still think Nvidia has planned for all this and will flood the market with stock as soon as AMD releases.